Sentence examples for on a vcr from inspiring English sources

Only video-on-demand, which allows cable customers to select from a library of films and view them much as they would on a VCR, has shown much promise so far; it is available in a few dozen areas, mostly in smaller cities.

TiVo has a fast forward button that is similar to the one on a VCR.

To see the pumpkin glow, just click the play button, which is similar to the one on a VCR.

We sat in the patients' lounge watching "The Wizard of Oz" on a VCR.

Dinner, homework, movies on a VCR, snack time and lights out at 11 follow.

You played nostalgic, like an arthritic former football star running game tape on a VCR.

The PhotoPort does have the option of copying the images to a different memory card or recording the images on videotape if a VCR is connected to the set.

As the announcer explains that Goldstar has made programming easier by showing a simple version of the instructions on the television screen, a VCR salesman, talking backwards, gives an incomprehensible explanation of how to use a competing machine.

I was entranced by the huge, comfortably cluttered Montparnasse apartment, the cat named Prunelle (as I recall), and my first encounter with a VCR, on which her daughter Vanessa watched Les Enfants du paradis, en boucle (literally; it was the easiest babysitting job I ever had).

The question ultimately is: will all the new developments allow the PVR to manage our personal spare time more efficiently, or will it turn out merely to be a VCR on steroids?Luke Collins is a technology writer based in London.

As a child, his household was one of the first on the block to own a VCR, making him both fiercely cine-literate and unashamedly fan-ish from an early age.